...Once upon a time in a village, a man announced tothe villagers that he would buy monkeys for Rs 10. Thevillagers, seeing that there were many monkeys around,went out to the forest and started catchingthem..The man bought thousands at Rs 10 and as supply startedto diminish, the villagers stopped their effort.He further announced that he would now buy atRs20. This renewed the efforts of the villagers andthey started catching monkeys again.Soon the supply diminished even further and people startedgoing back to their farms.The offer rate increased to Rs 25 and the supply ofmonkeys became so little that it was an effort to evensee a monkey, let alone catch it!The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at Rs50!However, since he had to go to the city on some business,his assistant would now buy on behalf of him.In the absence of the man, the assistant told thevillagers. Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that theman has collected. I will sell them to you at Rs35 and when the man returns from the city, you cansell it to him for Rs 50.” The villagers squeezed up with all their savings and boughtall the monkeys.Then they never saw the man nor his assistant, onlymonkeys everywhere!Welcome to the ‘Stock Market’!